“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
Rumi
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” Rumi
Finding love is often more a matter of becoming more open to our own feelings and emotions than it is of searching for and finding objects and things outside of ourselves.
It has more to do with removing the ways we prevent ourselves from experiencing and acknowledging our feelings and emotions, and from allowing ourselves to become vulnerable to feelings of love.
“Fear is the great barrier to human growth.” Robert Monroe
“Many of us have unconsciously erected barriers to protect ourselves from failing or succeeding. We may think we’re protecting ourselves by denying our creative impulses, but all we’re doing is burying our authentic selves alive.” Sarah Ban Breathnach
Getting Personal
What is a good example of an emotional barrier that people develop that prevents them from experiencing love?
…Top of post photo, “Peeling Onion,” from pixtastock.com
